The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-04
THE GARBAGE QUESTION.
Some Interesting Reading for Our
City Fathers.

The garbage question is still the most
interesting topic in the Health Depart
ment. The last garbage-consuming
furnace investigated was that at Pitts
burg. DR.. De Wolf stopped off there on
his way home from New York and
brought with him working plans of the
entire apparatus. He was disappointed
though, at not seeing the city furnaces
IN operation, as work has been delayed
on account Of labor troubles, and it will
not be ready for ten days yet. The
doctor, however, examined a furnace
IN operation in the tannery of James
Gallery, who is also the President of the
Plttsburg & Western Railway. He had
the furnace constructed at his tannery
Tor the purpose of burning the eX
from forty to sixty tons of bark day, !"
said DR.. De Wolf. "In addition to that
he burns all the scraps and scrapings of
the hides in his establishment, which
he has never been able to do heretofore.
By the use of this furnace, burning as
1t does all the refuse material which
has heretofore been thrown into the
Allegheny River, he runs a LOCO horse
power engine.
The furnace which is being con-
structed for the City of Pittsburg, said
the doctor, will cost about So 200 and
is guaranteed by the furnace company
to consume thirty tons of garbage day
with the services of two men and the
use of bushel of coal to start the fire
the garbage furnishing the material for
its own combustion. In nv opinion
this is the most promising experiment
for garbage consumption now being
tried anywhere. 1t is in the hands of
able men financially, and men of very
honorable character"
He was asked if he haG looked into
quarantine at New York. II cid not
for the most manifest reason" he said,
las [ neither wanted to contact Asiatic
Cholera nor to bring it back.with me.
As regards the cholera the feeling in
New York, so far as the sanitary con-
ditlon of the city is concerned, is
hopeful one. The Health Department
OF New York is admirably organized
and is doing efficient work. The prob
abilities OF an infection of this country
by cholera are almost nil. l am not
certain, however, that the cholera in
fected clothing which has been passed
into the interior will not do its work
next spring."
The City Law Department and Col
lector Onahan will hold a conference
to-day in reference 10 the claims
against wholesale liquor men who have
not paid up back license. There are
about 100 firms against whom there are
claims, ranging from 5000 to $500. In
only two or three cases has any
attempt been made to push the claims
for collection, and these we're where
the Collector was openly defed. Now,
however, as the wholesale dealers are
so slow at coming in it has been decided
to institute suits for a portion of the
claim and keep imposing fines as the
violation is continued until the dealers
come up and settle.
The PooTbouse and Paupers Corn
mittee of the County Board yesterday
inspected the pooThouse and the bury
ground at Jefferson. They found
that Commissioner Sennes report of
the condition of the potter's field was
well founded and that the addition of
more ground was imperative. It was
found that in some cases as many as
three bodies occupied one grave.